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Week starting Friday, July 31, 2015

Degas: A New Vision offers the most significant international survey in nearly 30 years of the work of Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas. The MFAH is the only U.S. venue for this exhibition, which assembles some 200 works from public and private collections around the world.

Make the MFAH your staycation destination! Travel around the globe, through time, and to other worlds in 45-minute Passport Tours. Join all of these summer tours and get to know the wonderful treasures that transform the Museum into an[…]

Renovation of Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum started in 2003. From the beginning, the plan was opposed by unyielding counter-forces. Director Oeke Hoogendijk filmed behind the closed doors of the museum for 10 years. What was meant to be a standard-length documentary[…]

The exhibition Habsburg Splendor: Masterpieces from Vienna's Imperial Collections features paintings, royal carriages, costumes, armor, antiquities, and other treasures collected by the Habsburg Dynasty over five centuries. Though the MFAH is only 115 years old, it,[…]

Paintings by renowned Italian artists—from Carlo Dolci's intensely spiritual religious images and Luca Giordano's allegories, to the dramatic interpretations of Orazio Gentileschi and Francesco Solimena—are featured on these short tours. Discover a different work of art[…]

Enjoy an informal gallery concert when you visit the exhibition Habsburg Splendor: Masterpieces from Vienna's Imperial Collections. Students from the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston perform a broad range of classical music[…]

Make the MFAH your staycation destination! Travel around the globe, through time, and to other worlds in 45-minute Passport Tours. Join all of these summer tours and get to know the wonderful treasures that transform the Museum into an[…]

Journey to extraordinary wonderlands this summer! The Museum is brimming with otherworldly destinations—real and imaginary, tangible and virtual. On this 45-minute tour, you might turn into a virtual monster; enter a fanciful time warp where teapots[…]

Enjoy an informal gallery concert when you visit the exhibition Habsburg Splendor: Masterpieces from Vienna's Imperial Collections. Students from the Moores School of Music at the University of Houston perform a broad range of classical music[…]

Presented by Christine Gervais, associate curator, decorative arts and Rienzi; co-curator of "Habsburg Splendor: Masterpieces from Vienna’s Imperial Collections" For more than five centuries, the Habsburg court was defined by amazing spectacles that aimed to show[…]

Introduced by Margarita De la Vega-Hurtado, film historian and MFAH Film Committee member, in conjunction with the exhibition Cosmic Dialogues: Selections from the Latin American Collection In a “transfixing cinematic essay,” master director Patricio Guzmán[…]